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As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Al Gore

Change, Experience, Future

Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.
Teri Garr

Life, Enough, Around

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
Mike Ditka

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Live, Broadened, Narrowed

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Freedom, Sleep

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
William Hazlitt

Book, Read, Three

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Henry Miller

America, Young, Old

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
Frank Rizzo

Night, Liberal, Mugged

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Sophocles

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
Enrico Fermi

Confused, Here, Level

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
George Santayana

Friend, Him, Understand

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Lou Holtz

Mistakes, Nothing, Fired

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.
Kim Kardashian

Older, Bit, Wiser

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir

Battle, Leader, Nation

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
Russell Baker

Age, Children, Parents

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Marriage, Morning

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Gloria Steinem

Marriage, Sex, Job

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
Carl Sandburg

Human, Saying, Learned

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Claude Monet

Artist, Sure, Picture

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.
Herb Brooks

Stupid, Done, Maybe

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
James K. Polk

Less, President, Congress

Never get out of bed before noon.
Charles Bukowski

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
James Rollins

Morning, Matter, Fact

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.
Gordon Ramsay

Time, Today, Strong

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Mistake, Data, Capital

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Eugene O'Neill

Love, Thinking, Thought

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
George Lucas

Hope, Hard, Give

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
John Donne

God, Eyes, Soul

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
William Ralph Inge

Life, Hope, Reflection

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
Adam Levine

Everyone, Stage, Pretend

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